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revenues were given to the poor, and the chureh converted into an hospital. Here our travellers separated. Arthur returned homeward, and Lithgow proceeded to Greece and Asia ; but first visiting Padua, Verona, and Ferrara. At Padua he staid three months learning Italian of one of his countrymen, Dr. John Wedderburn, an eminent mathematician, who afterwards settled in Moravia. At his return to Venice, he embarked in a earmoesalo Zara Nova, in Dalmatia; but meeting with a violent storm, they were driven for shelter into the port of Parenzo, in Istria. Thence sailing by the isles Briani, the ruins of Pola, the isles Sangego, Osero, on the 8th day they arrived at Zira where our traveller got a passage into a Greek earmocsalo for Lesina, the largest island in Adriatiea. He afterwards sailed suecessively to Ragusa, and the island of Corfu, Near the island of St. Maure the vessel was attacked by a Turkish galley of Biserta, from whieh after a long and doubtful fight they escaped by favour of a storm, and took shelter in Copholonia (formerly Ithaea,) having seven of the crew killed, and eleven wounded; among the latter our traveller, in his right arm. Over this island he travelled, and on the second day hired a little boat to carry him to Zant, (aneiently Zaeynthus,) twenty five miles distant, where a Greek surgeon
